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Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to test your upload/download speed from your VPS and share the “famous” picture from speedtest.net ?

Speedtest.net uses Flash to test upload/download speed which is a hassle on most VPS.
The long way to get this is to install VNC and run it from a browser, but that is no longer necessary.
We can now use Matt Martz python script speedtest-cli to accomplish this from the commandline.

Linux Malware Detect (LMD) uses MD5 file hashes and hex pattern matches to identify malware. The goal of LMD is to provide a threat detection, alerting and quarantine tool for Linux web servers, though the MD5/hex signatures are portable to any number of detection tools. There is currently limited availability of open source, restriction free, tools for Linux systems that focus on malware detection and more important that get it right. Many of the AV products that perform malware detection on Linux have a very poor track record of detecting threats, especially those targeted at shared web hosting servers. The threat landscape on shared web hosting servers is unique from that of the standard AV products detection suite in that they are detecting primarily trojans / rootkit content but missing the ever increasing malware on the account level which serves as an attack platform. Using the cymru.com malware hash repository, which provides malware data for Microsoft, Google, Trend Micro, F-Secure, Symantec and more; we can demonstrate this short coming in current threat detection.Read more